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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
5
In Toledo on May 11 4 the inventor Ernie Haines tests a contraption using elastic bands to restrain a rooster so it cannot crow, enabling uninterrupted sleep. The South Park Improvement Club plans its annual meeting and officer elections Friday night at 8 at the South Park field house.
Sheriff John Stringer promotes using fingerprints to protect bank deposits and identify suspects. He cites the uniqueness of prints and suggests mugging every arrestee in King County to compare records, aiming to curb forgeries and prior arrests. police already use the system.
Mrs Ruth Rose seeks divorce from George Ross a grocery store proprietor alleging a violent temper that she says amounts to barking at her and family commentary that harms her health. She claims a $5 000 equity in a home and about $20 000 in the business and seeks alimony and custody of daughter Betty Ross.
Mme Joffre wife of the famed French field marshal travels to the front to lift soldier spirits as a member of the allied war council. The photograph captures one of these morale boosting visits to the French front.
In New York on May 11, a heavy rain emptied an uptown public school. Nurses, parents, chauffeurs and relatives waited with umbrellas and wraps as children were hurried away. An observing old man recalled how conditions changed since his boyhood.
Secretary of Labor Wilson asks the polity committee of District No 3 United Mine Workers and operators scale committee to send committees to Washington to confer on production hindrances. Ballard High School Parent Teachers' Association will hold its annual election at the school building on May 17 at 3 p.m.
Friday marked the last push as three men began another fundraising run from the Arcade building at 9 45 am. Over three days the drive gathered 1396 new members and 67891 50 dollars in funds, with Thursday adding 25000 plus in kind and 2700 more found at lunch. John FE Agen gave the largest single budget donation of the drive.
In superior court Hazel McNeil sues Hugh McNeil seeking a divorce and one half of a $150,000 legacy left to him by his father in 1912. The suit alleges non support and cruelty as grounds.
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